VOICE OF THE PEOPLE (letter)

Cartoon controversy

February 19, 2006|By Ed Letchinger

Chicago — Two editors of the Daily Illini were suspended from their posts following their publication of some of the Danish cartoons, and the Tribune and most other U.S. newspapers have avoided publishing them (Metro, Feb. 15). It is surprising to me that these items, which supposedly were so incendiary and insulting, cannot even be seen by most Americans, and that our newspapers have chosen to censor them. Apparently press freedom does not extend to anything that arouses mob violence in the Islamic world. Has the mob won?